A Straightforward Approach To Planning Your Wedding Guest List
When the thrill of the proposal has died down and the engagement has really sunk in the wedding planning will begin in earnest. One of the first wedding planning tasks to complete is to drawn up your wedding guest list. Here is the easy way to start to build the guest list for your day.
First thing first, you and your fiance will need to sit down and have a chat about what type of wedding you envisage. Hopefully you will both have similar thoughts in mind, but you may find that one of you wants a huge ceremony with all the trimmings and the other wants a more laid back intimate affair.
Next you will need to add the obvious attendants to the list. These are the people that you would not want to get married without them in attendance. These are usually people like your parents and close friends and family. You may find that just by putting these people down your wedding guest list is already beginning to take shape.
After that you will need to consider whom you do not want in attendance. This is where things could get tricky for you. You may be uncomfortable with a few people coming while your partner might want them there. Usual candidates are ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends, ex-wives and ex-husbands. While you may not want to talk about this, and it will not be the most romantic of conversations, getting it out of the way at the at this early stage will be much easier than trying to remove someone from the guest list once they already have an invitation or suffering in silence as their presence spoils your wedding day.
Consider what you can afford. If you do not have a great deal of money to work with it may be much better to have a smaller guest list. The more guests you have at your wedding the more food and drink you have to order, not to mention the fact that you will need a bigger venue with more decorations, more tables, and more centerpieces. Once you have worked out how much money you have to utilize you can start adding or taking people off your guest list.
If at any point you find that you need to trim down your guest list a great way to do so is to exclude children, partners of people who are not in a serious or long-term relationship, work colleagues who you are not particularly close to and relatives that you are quite distant from. Remember, there is no point in inviting anyone just for the sake of it, no matter what you do only invite those that you want to be there.
By: Amanda Jane
First thing first, you and your fiance will need to sit down and have a chat about what type of wedding you envisage. Hopefully you will both have similar thoughts in mind, but you may find that one of you wants a huge ceremony with all the trimmings and the other wants a more laid back intimate affair.
Next you will need to add the obvious attendants to the list. These are the people that you would not want to get married without them in attendance. These are usually people like your parents and close friends and family. You may find that just by putting these people down your wedding guest list is already beginning to take shape.
After that you will need to consider whom you do not want in attendance. This is where things could get tricky for you. You may be uncomfortable with a few people coming while your partner might want them there. Usual candidates are ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends, ex-wives and ex-husbands. While you may not want to talk about this, and it will not be the most romantic of conversations, getting it out of the way at the at this early stage will be much easier than trying to remove someone from the guest list once they already have an invitation or suffering in silence as their presence spoils your wedding day.
Consider what you can afford. If you do not have a great deal of money to work with it may be much better to have a smaller guest list. The more guests you have at your wedding the more food and drink you have to order, not to mention the fact that you will need a bigger venue with more decorations, more tables, and more centerpieces. Once you have worked out how much money you have to utilize you can start adding or taking people off your guest list.
If at any point you find that you need to trim down your guest list a great way to do so is to exclude children, partners of people who are not in a serious or long-term relationship, work colleagues who you are not particularly close to and relatives that you are quite distant from. Remember, there is no point in inviting anyone just for the sake of it, no matter what you do only invite those that you want to be there.
By: Amanda Jane
Labels: Wedding-Planning
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